Feminism's Biggest Blindspot Revealed | Cafe Classroom

[@ThisIs42]

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[@traviswessels5814]

Feminists are treasonous traitors to every country around the world and blood on your hands that you can't wash off

[@MgtowRubicon]

@@traviswessels5814 Q: What went wrong? A: Giving women the right to vote.

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

scientism charlatan.

[@zacharygabriel5872]

I know I'm pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good website to watch new series online ?

[@byrdmaniacsg2776]

Hungary has eliminated gender/women’s studies from public universities. This needs to happen everywhere.

[@TheyCalledMeT]

nah every single claim has to be publicly riddiculed (after being disproven with actual data) .. people pushing this utter nonsense have to become the punchline of jokes for their zealotry

[@roca967]

I certainly agree with mocking, ridiculing and debunking the bogus ideas of feminism! But it would be nice governments would at least stop subsidizing mind poison and the sorts of "education" that teaches feeble mindedness. This stuff would never survive on its own merits, and gets debunked over and over (seen the Thomas Sowell clip from, I think, the early 90s debunking the wage gap?), yet carries on being pushed anyways. If saturating gullible young university students in feminism isn't bad enough, my cousin in highschool told the family they're bringing gender studies students in to tell them about the patriarchy/mansplaining/don't rape, etc. Great, let's poison the relations between the sexes as early as possible!

[@TheyCalledMeT]

@@roca967 when telling people not to do something would work .. there would be no crime .. you don't tell a criminal not to rob a store .. you tell the store to take precautions .. same applies to people who are into sexual crime .. the wender gage wap is utter bs .. else greedy companies would hire women exclusively and become filthy rich .. every company that tried it failed miserably. and yes .. keep feminist brainwashing out of schools .. the absolut max is courses in colleges .. and even there should be nonstop critical people holding it up to scientific standards and debunk and riddicule the stupid crap they make up nonstop ..

[@TheyCalledMeT]

@@roca967 but you know .. it's virtuous to protecc wamen .. so people go out of their way to help the bitching and moaning professionaly offended .. grievance studies hits the nail on the head..

[@SlowCarToChina]

@@TheyCalledMeT Ridiculing it isn't enough. This psychopathic strain of feminism is now influencing company policy and what our children are being told in school. It is rapidly being accepted as the de-facto truth by today's under 40's. It is extremely worrying.

[@canadiannavigator3346]

"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny." - Aristotle

[@wattjock]

American Spartan ~ Was that Aristotle or Plato... I think that was the latter maybe.

[@chuckdriver7741]

Watt Jock - Aristotle is correct.

[@wattjock]

Chuck Driver ~ Did Plato not lay this out in his work The Republic? I have just started reading it.

[@ShaggyTheClown17]

actually american spartan, power leads to weakness, weakness leads to danger, danger leads to struggle, struggle leads either to collapse or back to power and so on.

[@wattjock]

That Guy ~ sounds as if you are referring to Tytler’s Cycle of Man. www.google.com/search?q=tytler+cycle&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS657US657&hl=en-US&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ACYBGNS1SJk8X_z91umwa8d-Monn8pNjNA:1574416366688&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSgo-Cxv3lAhUCnKwKHc1OBNAQ_AUoAXoECA8QAQ&biw=1024&bih=655#imgrc=tR5ef0QdQWzvEM

[@agh8607]

If you can't criticize and question an idea without being ostracized you know something isn't right.(to say the very least)

[@manoman0]

..or you live in a totalitarian country.

[@roca967]

I really liked how Jennifer Roback-Morse put it: fantasy ideologies (ideas that are observably false in daily life, eg "men and women are the same") are totalitarian by nature. They require endless propaganda to perpetuate, endless force and control to try and enact, because they're fighting against reality.

[@manoman0]

@jon doe No. The term "It's OK to be ....." is a term the enemy uses. I do not speak in the words and terms of our common enemy.

[@manoman0]

@jon doe "It's OK to be white/black/whatever" is a term used by socialists and SJW. Do NOT engage in their terms and words they use or you submit to them. You're white. That's it.

[@pdarley58]

AGH uummm like Antisemitism and Islamaphobia???

[@piobmhor8529]

When I was in the Army, I had a saying that “competence has no gender, colour or ethnicity”. If a person met the standard, they met the standard plain and simple. I was called a racist-sexist-bigot for abiding by that. Feminism has insisted on the “sliding scale” of standards be applied to one group but not the other, that’s not equality but superiority. Today’s feminism (whether you call it third wave or not) is not about equality at all.

Feminism from its inception has been an idea from the 1800s based on the Marxist idea of class warfare and adapted to the Genders. That idea has evolved today to the point where any "characteristic" is now a line you can divide yourself by into difference grievance groups. It's a system of eternal conflict so the population are at each other's throats, instead of doing what a population should be doing and maintaining their eternal vigilance on their rights and freedoms so tyrants don't slide in while everybody is distracted. The core concept of "feminism" is that men as a gender are grouping together to "oppress" women, even though no such thing has ever happened and men go out of their way to protect women. They use the justification of "those who were in positions of power were men". Because, with Marxists, everything is about power. Well, those men were oppressing other men too. Those men were the men out on the front lines and down in the mines making sure you didn't have to too. They're the ones who are picking up your garbage every day and climbing telephone towers to make sure your mobile phones have receptions too. But yeah. "men are oppressing women".

[@brynleytalbot778]

Shawn Hatton Sadly incompetence on the job but social competence within management hierarchies now fits people to higher positions. Whether that's the result of feminists or feminism being the driving force in HR dominated by women, I don't know.

[@trublgrl]

"You need to carry 200 pounds 200 yards." "You know 50% of people can't do that." "I think 90% of people can't do that. I'm looking for the top 10%. It's not a random figure, this is what is required to be effective in this task. If you can't do it, it doesn't get done." "But no one in the group _I'm in_ can do it, so you can't ask for it to be done." Thanks, feminism.

[@lobonoir6938]

@@trublgrl Actually in the 1980s we had canvas lined a sea bags for this exercise ...One bag was 100# , 150 # and 180# ...We ran 50 yards at your best run (dash) effort- stop- drop and role (as if being shot at) pick up and recover your load and dash another 50 yards -stop - breathe- timed 10 seconds ...Then run/jog/crawl/walk/or any way you can back 100 yards non stop !!..And you never knew what load you would be picking up , just your luck if it was 100 # (we had 3 bags one for each weight ) because our NCOs would cover the bags with a poncho and rotate them with each relay ...You should watch Lisa Ling tv special "A Few Good Women " about female (all Marines must go through it no matter your MOS job) Marines who are going through combat training course...The packs are 60 -70 pounds , then ad body armor weapon , ammo , water , gas mask ect....It can be brutal !!!

[@DoReMi123acb]

Women are still failing to pass the Military training requirements despite the bar being lowered for them. Feminism is bullshit! www.military.com/daily-news/2019/10/15/men-and-women-seeing-different-failure-rates-armys-gender-neutral-fitness-test.html

[@MrTom1379]

We’ve had 2 female prime minsters in the UK , despite claiming women are being held back , rather than celebrate their accomplishments and use them as role models for other women they actually hate them. Feminism isn’t about women’s rights , it’s a left wing political movement.

[@StarlasAiko]

And both female PMs were Conservatives. How many did the left even attempt to promote?

[@MajesticDemonLord]

To be fair, one of them was Theresa the Appeaser May, who will probably go down as one of the worst Prime Ministers ever. The other is Margaret Thatcher, who, simply put, had more Balls than just about any Man.

[@potatoface6986]

@johnny cash and that's just the men!

[@VPNfreespeech]

MrTom1379 We had one in Australia 🇦🇺 I didn’t vote for her - feminists have turned me off voting for my own gender. I have a son and am sick of their crap.

[@MrTom1379]

Kilravok exactly, they claim they’re for equality but have never had a female prime minister.

[@DruuzilTechGames]

5:30 - Yes, because the school system has been geared to cater exclusively to women. Tailor an entire system to one gender (one of TWO) and of course that gender will flourish to the detriment of the other.

[@brynleytalbot778]

Absolutely. Pure common sense, but that quality is lost nowadays in the pursuit of being right.

[@barrylast8655]

Ya. Make women think they are oppressed, then you empower them and give them everything (taking from men), authority to oppressed women & men. Now if something were to happen like an invasion or some other take over. These women will not inconvenience them selves to protect anyone. Look around today. Lots of socialist groups squawking and pushing on more demands, taking from tide who produce but not doing anything to correct or fix.

[@lettyguerra371]

You're absolutely right. I saw this happening to my son and other boys when he was in grade school. Thank God for his Christian teachers in the public school who didn't play favorites or libs trying to futrthet the leftist feminist agenda. I do have to say that even though there are more women in college, most of them are graduating with useless degrees. Very few are in finance and business these days, and even fewer in STEM. Men still dominate, because like it or not they are better at it, because they are wired for it naturally! The one disturbing problem is that colleges and universities are drumming down their STEM courses and tests in order to get more women into those fields of study, thereby turning out inferior graduates!

[@СтасСтас-е2д]

@@lettyguerra371 Girls developing faster than boys, but modern schools do not care about children who developing slower. So majority of boys have poor school education. So they have lower chances go to college and have high education. Also social science now corrupt and students not learning sciences but learning propaganda. In result we have society were no one have good education.

[@innerpowerup]

Your point is a great one. Setting one up for failure by rigging the game and complaining when it works

[@Derna1804]

Strange that this has been hidden away in a quiet corner of KZbin.

[@joeburnett1701]

It's called no one is interested in it lol...

[@zitens66]

Of course. Feminazi don't want the truth of feminism told.

[@omegamale7880]

Derna1804 Not strange, it's been shadow banned.

[@shoeflytoo]

@ P-score? Please explain. Is this the statistical P or something else?

[@coolgranddad5430]

Anything that makes sense, uses actual data, highlights the positives in Western culture is of course relegated to "dark, unseen corners" of KZbin. George Orwell was right when he said... "truth is the new hate speech".

[@MgtowRubicon]

When you censor someone, you are conceding defeat of your ideas. "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." -- Leonard Nimoy as "Spock" in the Classic Star Trek episode "And The Children Shall Lead" "Only bad ideas require censorship in order to be maintained." -- Dave Cullen

[@PeopleLosingTheirShit1]

MGTOW Rubicon amen to that brother.

[@medspecgaming1363]

Amen.

[@Boetiuos]

"I lost friends I was excommunicated from a religion I didn't know existed" that's how sick feminism is shooting its own leg. christina is an impressive woman, one you can learn something from.

[@Angrybogan]

Christina, you will appreciate that men are sick of this extreme and never-ending feminist gripe. So we're leaving women to their own devices.

[@lobonoir6938]

MGTOW is peace !!!

[@barrylast8655]

... Or rather, to there chosen distinction? Very sad, what can you do but not get sucked down into it.

[@amacnaughton85]

@@lobonoir6938 MGTOW is juvenile. Peace comes from reconciliation, not dissociation. That way lies mutually assured destruction.

[@nattymo7835]

@@amacnaughton85 It's juvenile to put oneself before another? Why do you assume anybody on either side wants peace, or reconciliation? How can there be mutually assured destruction when there is no interaction? You use that word MGTOW, but I don't think it means what you think it means. [1] No relationships/marriage. [2] No cohabitation. [3] Go your own way. MGTOW is about male sovereignty and self-preservation.

[@lobonoir6938]

@@amacnaughton85 Peace comes from ones inner self and not reliant on others for stability ...Cooperative existence is a nice concept if all involved agree ..But humans be as humans be ,, "fickle" !!!...Reality....

[@davidchmielecki7653]

If feminism is so confident in it's arguments, then one would think that the would welcome discussion and critique, but alas...

[@toddknott135]

Given that feminism in it's current iteration has been monetized, it's going to be very difficult to end it.

[@TheClayCreature]

Simply put and true. It is a financial gravy train for many individuals.......but we also see the psychological downside of it as well. I would think that the end has to start with the individual.....removing their attention from it.

[@ramsa01Yt]

Todd Knott Impossible is the word. Roman Empire is an example

[@MajesticDemonLord]

Incorrect - As you point out, it's been monetized - so that is where the attack must be made. Remove the Money, remove the Cancer.

[@staceface1]

Considering that many feminists are not having children or having very few, it may take the rational minded having many and homeschooling to make a difference. Continue to challenge ideas and eventually the cracks will start to show.

[@toddknott135]

@@MajesticDemonLord ever try taking someone's money away from them?

[@latt.qcd9221]

"I think that third wave feminism should be equality; real equality." That is impossible for two reasons. The first is that it is impossible to ever achieve real equality given that everyone is different and has different interests and capabilities. The second is that feminism has never been about equality and can never be about equality. Feminism is about the advancement of women on the basis of equality, which is not the same thing as pushing for equality. As soon as you aim to help men in ways that they're not doing very well on the basis of equality of the sexes, you're no longer doing feminism, by definition.

[@kyliejones8827]

latt. That's my opinion, too. I have big reservations about any form of identity politics and activism in first world countries. The result is usually divisiveness and a waste of energy, time and resources. Feminism from the start was gynocentric. The clue is in the label. I have no labels to identify me. If my bones were examined (unlikely as I'll be cremated!) someone might identify me as female and a mother and possibly as a victim of murder (likely as I can be very irritating). 🙂

[@Apoc5k]

There are a number of industries of work out there where women will never seek equal representation and thus remain male dominated like sewage workers or any other equally harsh working conditions.

[@brynleytalbot778]

One Race Through Adam Mutual respect coupled with mutual appreciation of value. Within capitalist systems equality is almost impossible to achieve. Those whose labours produce economic benefit valued in their currency are always valued more than those whose labours go unpaid. Hence the equality of the sexes is improbable without both respect for identity and value. Females joining the male system with ever more aggression than males in it doesn't mean equality wins but that male traits win and they show they can be more male than males. Strip males of that and they're rendered useless beyond breeding necessity. Feminism had good ideas but they've been badly practised and implemented.

[@kyliejones8827]

@@brynleytalbot778 For me, equality BETWEEN the sexes is not just improbable, it's an irrational fantasy. There's no such thing as equality between individuals within the human population, never mind between huge population groups who have attributes they have no control over such as sex, race or disability. Sorry, just thinking aloud on a new idea so probably not very clearly put.... In a nutshell, I take individuals as they come regardless of what they look like - however, I will quickly make value judgements based on what they say and do! I despise identity politics and all it entails because it's a massive waste of time and energy and actively causes division and discrimination. I feel I've wasted too much time on this already when I should be writing a job application.... easily distracted.

[@ymtonemanlaer4088]

There are many gay/bi/lesbian ppl who chose to identify as heterosexual for their own reasons. Many of them support feminism and many others are activists. Those "straight" feminists have no interest in equality with men. Their goals have always been to destroy m/f family life, de-masculine men, treat them as 2nd class citizens, use them for dirty/dangerous jobs, imprison them at will, strip them of their parental rights, force them to pay [child support, alimony/spousal support], use their tax to create jobs and advance women’s education and so on. 3rdW Feminism is their trojan cow.

[@trublgrl]

Thanks to "This is 42" and "Cafe Clssroom". This is a rare and engaging video that explores a certain, seemingly controversial point of view without vitriol, aggression, or constant gainsaying and contrapoint. Only by knowing what others believe can we come to choose what we believe. Thanks for a fair and open forum for ideas.

[@Jesseh144]

The reason women are leaving men in the dust in education is that they are being chased off of collage campuses. I wouldn't set foot on one today.

[@redshark9537]

Yes, the women are getting degrees, but most won't get much of a job because they have useless degrees. A man with a trade will make more money.

[@Jesseh144]

@@redshark9537 You are so right.

[@garyalan5156]

They leave men in the dust in accumulating college debt.

[@Tj930]

No, miss, you had your chance. 60+% of government is staffed by women. Women pay 1/3 of tax burden but collect over 2/3 of public spending... And we wonder why governments overspend?

[@tsopmocful1958]

'Equity feminism' can't work because men and women are different.

[@2Hesiod]

Misandry is just as bad as misogyny.

[@SubtleStair]

What's even worse is how the concept of misogyny is unparseable while "misandry" can be unpacked as being void of meaning. How can you ever lose if you control words and their meanings?

[@FableMythLore]

This oddly made me smile. Sitting there in a small book store receiving a lecture, if necessary ask for a break because after all your in a book store great place to find questions.

[@atticus319]

Christina Hoff Sommers, you've done a lot of great work. I am really grateful that you are out there presenting your ideas. Men have put women and children first, as seen in disasters and the normalization of everyday male sacrifice such as chivalry. And, you're incorrect if you think that women were oppressed in any significant way. Men bear the brunt of life's hardships, whether toiling in difficult terrain and weather, sacrificed in wars, stepping forward to keep their women and children safe, or toiling long hours over spreadsheets and calculations. The result being that men have shorter life spans in almost every country, and it's so normalized that no one seems to have any interest in exploring this inequity.

[@RicktheRecorder]

Christina is a great heroine, and is part of the oh-so-necessary pushback against the modern ideological religions. But perhaps she should re-evaluate her support for first wave feminism and the suffrage movements, as if they were fundamentally different in kind from later versions. As people like Karen Straughan and Janice Fiamengo have started to point out, very much of what we think we know about early feminism is no more than politically crafted folklore. The majority of women got the vote almost immediately after the majority of men got the vote. Women could and did own property. Women have been able to operate in the major trades and professions since mediaeval times. What oppressed women was broadly the same as what oppressed men: harsh economic conditions and disease. Childbirth and rearing gave women a hugely fulfilling purpose in life, as well as a highly dangerous and burdensome function. The Pill (invented by men) gave women control of that reproductive burden for the first time, and that is where modern feminism starts. It may prove a two-edged social sword however as it significantly affects women’s purpose in life and their behaviour.

[@barrylast8655]

Women usually squawk more. MEN usually like peace, quiet and order, esp. at home. The farm has been sold for peace and we've be ripped off!

[@vanessat9309]

Yes, this exactly. But first wave feminism is the Holy Cow you have to bow down to, so it's easier to say, "it's just the radicalism we're against. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater" than to have a revisionist perspective to the whole of feminist history. The reality is that the whole thing is rotten from the roots up.

[@marciahammond9735]

Thank you, it's so great to hear a sensible lady telling us what the reality of this insanity is.

[@Mark_Dyer1]

Identity Politics Warning! Writing as an older gay man (67) what is so very sad about the work of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin is that they are always on the side of the censorious, and the puritanical. For me, as an adolescent, gay porn was a great counter-force against such people, whether in Politics or the Church. Where these latter two forces were telling my young brain that, what I craved was depraved and UGLY in every sense, gay porn told me that my desires were perfectly usual to other gay men, and that gay sex could be just as beautiful (or ugly!) as 'straight' sex. MacKinnon and Dworkin consider that no-one should be having sex at ALL! And certainly not for fun! So where does that place their critique? Perhaps within the Roman Catholic Church?

[@StarCityFAME]

I sometimes post a funny collage of feminists along with a nun... and wonder, where have I seen these people before? LOL! (And I am a practicing Catholic... with a sense of humor.)

[@Mark_Dyer1]

@@StarCityFAME Thank you for this! I have just spent two full days, on a private retreat, to the great Somerset (UK) Benedictine Abbey of 'Downside'. In addition to the wonderful prayerful reading I was able to do, one thing which became absolutely confirmed to me as a Christian: I must NEVER become Roman Catholic! Their 'religion' is CHURCHIANITY: not CHRISTIANITY.

[@johnryan3622]

Of course they are drawn to it, if you can blame your multitude of failures and faults on someone else, you can temporarily forget how unappealing you are to society. That’s why specific types of women are drawn to it.

[@nunyabiznes80085]

Oh look! A feminist that doesn't hate men, isn't ugly and speaks with reasoned, well thought out arguments. What a breath of fresh air!

[@sneezyfido]

One might argue that this is no feminist at all

[@marshallfelder5179]

Feminism, in whatever form, started from the beginning (Genesis 3). Feminism has nothing to do with equality. It has everything to do with preferential treatment. Women don't want to be equal with men. They want to supplant them. (again...Genesis 3). The aforementioned Biblical reference also is clear that the woman would NEVER supplant the man. Like the issue of women in combat, women have to have men to succeed. It isn't the other way around.My point is if the goal was equality in combat situations, they would have formed all female groups to see if they could indeed be equally competitive. I mean there are centuries of data on all male combat groups with which to compare. Like all high risk jobs in which women participate, they have to have males in close proximity to appear to succeed in that position. The male is biologically, ergonomically, emotionally and mathematically the superior design. The female is basically a walking incubator to propagate the species. Once an artificial womb is designed and operational, women will be obsolete. I mean if one reads the first three chapters of Genesis, the question would invariably arise as to why God created the female the way he did. I mean such an inferior design. He didn't just variate the design to improve the design. It was a complete redesign with significant design shortcomings. So if God is perfect...then ...why? He knew of the future deception and fall. He predesignated the female to always be less than.

[@marshallfelder5179]

@Marci Dh Genesis 3

[@victorwilliams4403]

I appreciate that you brought these meaningful discussions to light.

[@lylecosmopolite]

"I was excommunicated from a religion that I did not now existed." I have been aware of that "religion" (gender feminism = GF) for nearly 50 years. I am very surprised that Sommers remained aloof from GF until she began teaching feminist theory in the late 1980s. By that time, feminist theory was well ensconced in the American academy. GF is grounded in the following authors: Kate Millet, Germaine Greer (the author of The Female Eunuch), Sally Gearhart, Mary Daly, Shulamith Firestone, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Susan Brownmiller (author of Against Our Will) and Robin Morgan, the founder of Ms magazine and the most consequential of all Second Wave gender feminists. In interviews she gave in the 1980s, Betty Friedan, the founder of the Second Wave, clearly disassociated herself from GF. No gender feminist is a trained quantitative social scientist, and there lies the rub. I agree with Sommers's contention that gender feminism dismisses data calling GF into question, as products of a patriarchal conspiracy. A little personal fact helps explain Sommers's views on this topic; she is the mother of two sons. Daly, Firestone, French and Rich are dead. Millet has struggled with mental illness for much of her adult life. Greer's books published this century have not been well reviewed. Brownmiller no longer agrees with Against Our Will, but is afraid to recant publicly.

[@S.J.L]

My daughter just turned 15 and she is being psychologically assaulted by people trying to make her into a miserable neo Marxist but I'm not going to let that happen. I gave her your book. Thank you for your work and may God bless you.

[@spraakkanon]

"I was excommunicated from a religion I didn't know existed"............gold

[@chrismaddock598]

Adversity seems like oppression to the privileged!

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

A (male) cousin once asked me, "Are you a feminist?" My answer was an immediate 'No, of course not.' Isn't feminism ( i.e. promoting those things which women find important) something for women to be concerned about? I found the question as irrelevant as, "Are you a meninist?"

[@rayoh2011]

Ms. Sommers is an extraordinary woman. I salute her for speaking out against falsehood feminism!

[@simonclare100]

She is telling the truth, the current lunacy does not like that light shined on their deluded nonsense

[@nobillismccaw7450]

Sadly, it’s probably broken beyond repair now. Demographics will eventually change the situation in the long term ,?as anti-family individuals reproduce less.

[@directedby100]

The same internal dynamic happened as well in climate discourse. The climate movement had made huge advances, and changed the behavior of citizens, corporations, and governments; a real awareness had resulted. But then global warming was embraced as a kind of categorical imperative, and the science wasn't then, and isn't now, behind it. Then activism and hysteria took over, to the point where it's now dogma. The notion of the patriarchy controlling and setting in place (viz. Foucault) the very means of describing and understanding women's phenomenological reality, is now reframing environmentalism as a kind of catastrophism with an actual end date. This ramping up of a discipline into conspiracy theory territory is likely happening in many fields now. How leftist political parties and activist groups act towards conservatives now has the same tone to it, escalating continuously.

[@terrythompson7535]

It's depopulation. A malthusian preventative check. The objective is to encourage behavior that causes men and women to have contempt for each other, and to motivate them to compete instead of collaborating, because the ruling class doesn't want more future generations of people trying to compete with their caste systems and established businesses.

[@p47plane]

Hi, I would like to recommend reducing the volume of the background music played throughout the talk.

[@ThisIs42]

Noted!

[@celbyj133]

does CHS version of feminism include a woman's right to complete bodily autonomy?

[@jamesriccardo2225]

@@celbyj133 I know that CHS is pro-choice and opposes Trump, as well as the spate of horrific anti-abortion measures being pursued by certain states. But she doesn't talk about this enough. As much as I like her, I find she tends to trot out the same material again and again.

[@popland1977]

@@celbyj133 When did bodily autonomy become the fancy way of saying ending human life

[@celbyj133]

@@popland1977 could not tell you exactly, women have been having abortions since forever.

[@jefferynelson]

There would be more single males at these events if free beer were served.

[@treelinehugger]

There are fundamental differences in how men and women approach leadership and justice. Men tend toward a broad view of blind justice. Men will develop fundamental principles to create ordered societies. Women tend toward a myopic view of focused justice. Women tend to myopically develop rash responses to perceived injustices, but fail to then see that their rash response creates derivative injustices. Women will tend to see the consequent injustices as new and unconnected problems that need new rash solutions. The creation of cascading problems and new solutions for these problems creates a chaotic society. As a libertarian, I believe in freedom for all, but I also believe in biology. There are differences between men and women that make each generally more suited for some specialized tasks. We have lost our way because we have unrealistic expectations that biology is fake science and that men and women are always and in every circumstance interchangeable. This should be obviously false, but it is today controversial and triggering.

[@Semicon07]

I love her, Christina Hoff Sommers would happen to be the smartest feminist alive. It is extremely concerning that any criticism of feminism and you are labelled a 'Misogynist' - Hell, argue with a feminist and you get this title. Lets get this straight, hating one female, for any reason does NOT = hates all women.

[@brynleytalbot778]

It's the same with Climate Change. These mob mentality movements crush free speech and logical rational reasoned debate. Then again hate is a great unifier and from that bad things arise, but no one looks at the pivot points in history to discover them.

[@Redrosewitch]

God Bless you, ma'am. This is one feminist I heartily respect.

[@benjamincharlton3774]

Always good to listen to Christina Hoff Sommers, but the video would have been more interesting with a Q&A session at the end

[@mikekean8344]

True.

[@brainiac31K]

Equity feminism is what I signed on for in the 70’s. The circular logic and rationalizations, ignoring real data and using conspiracy theories to justify the chauvinism of radical feminist thinkers is the same sort of dangerous ground used by V.I. Lenin to justify the abuses he fostered. I don’t know if I’ll live to see this situation rectified. I hope it will come true for our youth.

[@readhistory2023]

Women leaving men in the dust at University she says with pride. There's 8 times a many scholarships available to women as there are to men to attend college and even with that edge in funding it's only 60/40, more women than men attending university. Then there's the issue of what degrees are women getting? If more women are graduating but they're getting degrees in humanities or gender studies then they're $100,000 in debt for a piece of worthless paper. I hope they like saying "would you like fries with that?"

[@barrylast8655]

YES! So TRUE! But they won't admit that, without an attempt at a smoke & mirrored drama.

[@onetwo19]

Rachel Decoste thought Janice didn't have the right to attack the statistics because she and her feminist professors have relied on those for years. She actually said that! Her students are brainwashed and learn nothing but the ideology. They don't study history etc. They are dumb soldiers and do not have a bright future.

[@jonathanchurch7561]

I wonder if part of the problem is looking at feminism in isolation, I wonder if the phase of Socialism we are in and feminism has encouraged each movement to piggy back on the other, not knowingly, just coincidence, but it is bringing about a decimation of democratic systems and making millions very unhappy.

[@esmcl]

As Sommers suggests, alternative study can only be good. I recommend The Empathy Gap by William Collins. When you’ve absorbed some of the facts, ask yourself if there’s a need for any type of feminism.

[@johnmagill9496]

What's with Shroeder playing the Charlie Brown music in the background? It's a little distracting.

[@horsesense6173]

The only unresolved issue is that feminism needs to stop. Due to spineless and moral-bankrupt people in power, feminists have received much more than they had hoped for. Now, a typical feminist is unhappy, girl/women-hating, promiscuous, self-loathing, purity-hating, men-envious people who live lives devoid of purpose, meaning and worth. Knowing their lives are pointless, they are determined to lash out and bring down western civilization.

[@alanaspinall7147]

She a wonderful humanbing, I have a lot of respect for her.

[@sylvaincousineau5073]

feminisim never was about equality , it the name .

[@bnbwhitezombie]

As soon as the goal is reached, the goal is changed and the war of hatred against the enemy continues.

[@atticus319]

The following is based on generalities. I realize that there is some overlap in personalities. But if feminists can say the patriarchy oppresses women and favors men (ignoring men's suicides, imprisonment, workplace deaths, loneliness and isolation), then that barn door has already been blasted open. When men lead, they consider women and men (men have an out-group bias, and believe in serving and protecting women). When women lead, there will be corruption and bias (women have an in-group bias, and tend to seek their own happiness and pleasure--as evidenced by industries catering to women, such as massage, beauty parlors, scented soaps/candles..) Also, women are higher in neuroticism (as per in the Big-5 personality test), and I wonder if this isn't because girls are coddled from the time they're little. I wonder if this doesn't lead to a more unstable mental disposition, and a greater reliance on external stimulus to soothe and validate. And now with easy validation via social media, they've further degenerated.

[@SouthSideChiTown]

When was this video made? She keeps talking about equality, equality, equality. We have equality coming out of our ears to the point where there's reverse discrimination against men. How much equality is enough?

[@treelinehugger]

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create radical women. Radical women create hard times.

[@FrancesShear]

The Red Hat Society has often been recommended for me to join. After keeping house for a lovely elderly couple composed of a world war II veteran woman and a man born into a German or whatever he didn't say family here in North America who didn't reveal one way or another if he was a veteran himself or not too to brag I was delighted when getting to know what feminism was all about from both of them when it was in the original, "Let's demand the vote too" form. So because I was allowed to participate in candid discussions during well earned breaks there I learned from the greatest generation how to push back in the best double barreled way possible. Needless to say I was not at all surprised when hearing vitriol rhetoric later from my much younger than them too legal aid divorce lawyer himself [Whom I often tried to change but was never allowed to do so once he latched onto my contribution source] concerning on how I dared to respect my masters most coming from the female side of that command line as maid only because she gave the orders without having to teach her man at the same time.

[@CarrToonable]

Can I ask when this event took place? Would have been nice to know about it!

[@ThisIs42]

We recorded this when Christina was in Australia in March. You can find out how to be an audience member here: www.patreon.com/parliamentonking

[@alyssamaria4850]

I agree with her, but what is equity feminism? Now women get preferential treatment at university stem fields, medicine, law, board rooms. Is this equity? And exactly how are we equal? We aren’t clones

[@mr.universe250]

My daughter is jealous and blames everything on her older brother. She is 7 he is 8. He can carry more, is less needy and is very smart bc he can sit still and focus and thing things through. She is greedy, doesn't share and blames him for all her troubles. His presence makes her insecure and is always trying to "1up" him. She sees her physical and mental limitations and does not accept this. I think this is not just children's dilemmas grown ppl don't grow out of this mentality. The mother I'd the same way with me. Not sure I will continue dating her. I see these behaviors in women in my friends and others. It's a shame.

[@lylecosmopolite]

The central figure in the British struggle for female suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, did NOT believe that all women should have the right to vote. She only wanted women to vote if they could vote if they were men. The first British election in which all men past their 21st birthdays could vote was that of 1918. Before that election, British men who had neither property nor education were often not allowed to vote. Ms Pankhurst was fine with that. Her daughter Sylvia disagreed and pushed for universal suffrage regardless of property ownership. When Emmeline died, she and her daughter were estranged, because Sylvia was attracted to Bolshevism while Emmeline was not.

[@brianphillips604]

When the lights go out, feminism goes out.

[@WillpowerCinema]

Thank you for speaking some sense!! This message needs to get out more

[@adama5929]

There is but one thing to do: All men must say they are women. Now we only have women and can have a single standard all must live up to. That would work, right? Right???

[@barrylast8655]

NO

[@adama5929]

@@barrylast8655 I know. But imagine the smoke coming from their ears as they try to reason around it 🤣 Feminists are a strong 'ally' to the trans group(at the moment) and would not be able to argue against it without ruffling feathers of the present group in favor. It would trigger a massive civil war within the identity politics community.

[@barrylast8655]

@@adama5929 feminists are the ones that perpetuated these other groups, because they figured that a mass movement (of allies, NOT!) Would show support, making them appear as being right (mass & might is right!) "The WAR on Men, boys & Masculinity! "

[@imasmileydog8043]

Yes, according to TFM, men when applying for jobs should declare themselves as masculine-presenting trans lesbians. It's a win-win, you get a job over a less qualified female whom you're going to work rings around which benefits the employer cuz they are essentially hiring a woman, at least by modern standards and you fulfill a female hiring quota. Brilliant, no. Just imagine, a company with no female workers, the work gets done at a high level, you don't have to put up with whiney backstabbing women and you don't have to wear a dress.

[@drgnhuman2006]

Thank you. Thank you. The logic i was raised with in the early 2000s isnt dead

[@ClintonAllenAnderson]

This needs to be soooo much longer, and involve an actual conversation..... But it's a cute little primer to CHS.

[@geonunes10]

"let's unite against a common enemy" Adolf H. 1930's We all know how that turned out.

[@pepethunder]

Equity feminism is a very reachable goal. In fact some would argue it is already here. Ironically, what feminism is doing works against equity and in fact makes women look unreasonable

[@karamlevi]

Some women have decided to spread false rumors about all men so women can connect over a common enemy. Love is rare. Equality feminism is love. Very rare and elite. The over all effect is hating men creates less families and less children. That’s the goal / target.

[@jamiemcdaniel7861]

Don't try to be the nice feminist now. YOU CREATED THIS. Enjoy.

[@ericmorgan204]

Take Heart, the Bible states, 'at time of the end, men and women will still be, giving and taking in marriage'.

[@Nick-zz6xl]

Isaiah 4:1 In that day 7 women will take hold of 1 man and say, " We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!"

[@bleblee732]

How are the family law court equal??

[@johndowds5770]

I find one in forty to fifty hard to believe as well

[@keitheldershaw9428]

I am a man going towards his death; I look to the past and I see 63 years behind me. Even Ms Hoff-Summers lost a husband who was in his early 90's; yet the same old. tired rhetoric is flubbed out towards young men; that women ars "...leaving them in the dust." I ask myself what does this mean? How is it that the treatment against boys and young men must seem to be deserved, appropriate, necessary? Unless the only way that current need to describe themselves is: equal, yes, of course; but BETTER; Oh, definitely. There exists between men who think about these things a seething frustration in the dichotomy displayed in this proposition that reserves one form of discrimination towards and against, one part of human biology, and thence, against quite another, whom the first discrimination was intended. If a man can become a woman with a PENIS, then any "discrimination" against a man is a regression towards anyway of hurting and destroying THAT fight.

[@spencermorgan675]

It's not a problem for women to insist on fair and decent treatment. It is a problem when some attempt to turn a valid concern into an ideology. Ideologies distort reason and clear thinking into rigid positions which all are required to believe and which are beyond challenge. This is what is wrong with the ideology of Feminism as well as the ideologies of Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Libertarianism and many others.

[@mytmouse57]

She talked a lot but didn’t say much.

[@amacnaughton85]

You heard a lot but didn't listen much.

[@nickssmirkingrevenge]

Modern feminism preaches a seductive tale of victimhood. Trump spun a similar story to the working class, telling them that the 'elites' and immigrants had stolen their prosperity. Hitler also. It seems people have an insatiable appetite for consuming narratives of how they have been wronged.

[@snaggletooth5844]

I like this lady, she seems well educated, i gotta say i got respect for early second wave feminists.

[@svenhuber6533]

great video

[@NatasjavanDijknah]

'There are still some unresolved issues...' Such as?

[@brackcarmony6385]

Such as some people are in dysfunctional relationships, some men do beat their gfs or wives. Now I agree that those issues are not so much a governmental problem, as a 'how do we coexist in healthy ways' sorts of issues. Especially since most of those issues are not really specific to one gender or the other. Of course there are some people who treat their daughter worse than a son, there are other families where they treat their son worse than their daughter. And still others where they treat a particular son better than the other son. There is no way to remove all the issues that individuals face, nor a reasonable way to try and completely level the playing field. The best we can do, is stand up for people's right to individual autonomy, and hope that they can figure out the best responses to the situations they face, while trying to be helpful to those around us.

[@lepompier132]

Wow radical feminism are no different from the way flat earthers or radical creationism are thinking or getting their information (sources).

[@pagogo84]

THE SOLUTION: -Mutual Respect & Recognizing A Common Humanity......imagine that~ What a thought 🤔

[@NikLyons]

Respect

[@FeminismDebunked]

Please review the youtube video - What about the Gender Work Place Hours Gap?

[@Mechamjr88]

RACIST!!....... or wait..... oh SEXIST. Sorry, I'm new to the whole beta male that bows down and follows modern feminsts without question.

[@pantslizard]

Feminism is currently in the process of reversing 100 years of progress...awesome... ...keep up the good work... :>/

[@briantoblerone9625]

The grievances of feminism always comes back because at some point women have to look at themselves. I have yet to hear a word of what women can do to better the relation between men and women and the media and government don't do themselves any favor by alienating half their demographic.

[@directedby100]

Bravo.

[@edwardmcmanus]

I ❤️ you Christina!!

[@calmon-ground962]

I started to watch this, but frankly am annoyed by the background music, the sound of the door opening and closing, and the cuts to the bookshelf and the barista making coffee. I'll not be subscribing, and I'll now be listening to Christina on another channel.

[@ThisIs42]

Hey Liz! Sorry you felt this way, I'll pass your suggestions on to the team. Hope you come back soon! 😊

[@Nick-zz6xl]

ok, bitch...

[@silverpairaducks]

What kind of guitar is that? Dangelico maybe? Is it strung Lefty?

[@gort5583]

It amazes me that most women always think they were the ONLY ones that have ever been oppressed or suffered. Apparently the very concept of men being oppressed or suffering is not within the grasp of their minds. Therefore they always ignore issues that exist that effect both men and women, only seeing how women are effected. The original feminists who wanted the vote for women ignored that at that time most men did not have the vote. When arguing for equal pay they ignored that men were not on equal pay. The list goes goes on proving how women are the eternal victims.

[@alexvangasse3447]

I believ that the pil and the right to abort gave power to women over man

[@brynleytalbot778]

It's said it gave men the right to not accept no as a valid reason to decline sex. Far from liberating them it merely made women more sexually available and stripped them of choice. Again, abortion gave men advantage as shotgun weddings of convenience could be avoided. The legal system changed to favour women with children by empowering them to strip men financially naked. An odd reversal of power.

[@TheClayCreature]

@@brynleytalbot778 The number of abortions that has been requested and performed is astronomical. Less than 5% is due to (potential) mother's medical issues, rape or incest. I think the figures are painting an interesting picture about the empowered women.

[@jakedee4117]

Not really challenging what she is saying about feminism but who and what is the American Enterprise Institute ? That think tank is about transparent as mud.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Did you actually do any research? www.aei.org/about/

[@confusedwolf7157]

Belief not suspended ie not convinced of content of this channel. The tribal/ orchestrated intetsectional baying hounds need to be recognised. I am aware of the media hyped war: now tell me otherwise. Other comment (from military dude) rings true. Earn respect.

[@MNEWALL1]

feminisms - started with 2 lies - work is a privilege, and men controlled social norms. Sorry - but neither was ever true. The push around women and work , was not accompanied by push for men and family, so one must ask, was it ever really about equality? If it was, would it not have been open to issues for both? Her argument with regards to so many women being so happy to adopt a hate for men, well, what do you suppose that does for men's view of women. I would also ask - where are even the "equality feminists" on family law - and the harm to men, and children? Remember pushed decades ago by NOW- and there was little concern regarding the objections Karen DeCrow raised - then... so what should men think? (the major source of suicide in middle aged men).

[@henrikibsen6258]

The thumbnail was like CHS shopped with Camille Paglia.

[@ed5308]

I will give equity feminism respect when it shows respect. Women do not want equity of opportunity they want the same pay for less performance based on gender. That is not equity.

[@becantonopoulos2604]

Feminism DESTROYED motherhood

[@ambientlight3876]

In the absence of religion, people create new ones.